It had a great networked tank game where you drove around a city blowing it up and hunting for your buddy's enemy tank
Firepower. I especially liked the "explosion" and "cannon shot" sounds that had obviously been created by someone's mouth next to a microphone.
When I saved up and bought a 2400 baud modem, I was able to give my 1200 baud model to a friend of mine, and then we were finally able to play it together without one of us carrying his entire A500 over to the other's house.
'schizophrenia' just means "someone i don't like to talk to".
That's a very clever-sounding assumption. How sad that it's totally inaccurate.
I dated a girl with schizophrenia in high school. We talked all the time, and she was very intelligent about things like math. But because her condition worsened over time after she stopped getting treatment, she lost the ability to interact with the real world in any sort of meaningful way. Now, over a decade later, the person that she could have been is irrevocably lost.
Psychosis is not a disorder in the sense of a separate Axis I category. Rather, it is a loss of contact with reality that can be part of many disorders, including severe depression.
Okay, fair enough. I misread your statement "extraordinarily serious depression (psychosis, history of suicide attempts, etc.)" as implying that one of the possible symptoms of psychosis is depression, instead of vice-versa.
Obviously his brain had built up a tolerance to pizza and TV (due to the same effect we're discussing). You should have tried an alternate stimulus, like dancing girls or beer.
1. Define 'insanity'. 2. Sell drugs to make people conform to #1's definition. 3. [there is no "3. ???"] 4. Profit!!!!
Have you ever had a friend with a genuine psychological disorder, like schizophrenia? They are not "just different." They need treatment, particularly in the form of medication.
Just because US pharmaceutical companies like to sell fashionable products to gullible people does not mean that all psychiatric drugs are a scam.
Most likely the device will only be used on people with extraordinarily serious depression (psychosis, history of suicide attempts, etc.)
Nitpick:
Psychosis is a thought disorder. Depression is a mood disorder. Most people with psychosis (as opposed to psychopaths) are not violent toward themselves or others, just confused.
If I am constantly given negative stimuli, would the baseline not drop, making me feel happier in general, even though absolute quality of life remains unchanged?
Yes. In my experience, people still need some sort of external stimulus to turn their mood around, but the requirements for it become less and less stringent the longer they've been down.
Now, I don't fucking want help. I rather like being this far below the average person. It's easier down here. No one understands that, and I'm expected to "get better" so that my friends and family will "feel better" about me.
If it's so great, then why are the people around you able to tell that something is wrong?
The entire point of DST is just retarded. Don't change it. GET RID OF IT. It's 2005. We have these nifty fucking things called ELECTRIC LIGHTS now. You can use them to, like, see when it's dark. It's really fucking amazing.
No kidding. Maybe I've been having an overly stressful week, but the article summary made me want to go out and kill as many people as possible and impale them on pikes.
We'll see who's springing forward then, won't we? WON'T WE?!?!?!!!!
Write a script that gets triggered by file access events for the wave file Outlook is looking at. Every time that event happens, have it wait fifteen seconds, then overwrite the file with a randomly-selected one from a directory tree that contains wav files.
Bonus points for having it read the config information out of the registry and/or an ini file.
In our "faith based" medical system we are given magic pills for our mysterious diseases without knowing how they work or why we have the disease in the first place.
Yeah, too bad pharmacies don't give their customers detailed documents on the nature of the prescription medications they dispense. You know, something that gives the chemical name, what it does, how it treats a specific condition, that kind of thing.
It would be even better if non-generic drugs came with pamphlets that gave the molecular structure and results of the medical studies regarding the drug. Because, you know, that sure doesn't happen right now.
The doctors think we are too stupid to understand
For the most part, they're right. People's eyes glaze over when I try and explain something simple like nicotine and acetylcholine gateways in the brain. I can't even imagine what it would be like for a doctor to try and get across to the average moron how an SSRI works.
or be actively involved to choosing options in diagnosing and treating our problems.
Whenever I've *had* a genuine option (SNRI vs. stimulant, etc), my doctors have always been happy to let me decide, because they know I'm reasonably intelligent.
When most people talk about "choosing options in diagnosing and treating our problems" they mean "I want to take this magic homeopathic water instead of cancer medication, and I want you to agree that it's just as valid a treatment." Obviously no ethical doctor will go along with that.
...except that a single silicon atom is.25 nanometers in diameter. So even assuming a stack of pure silicon, a 1 inch cube is limited to 101,600,000 layers, or roughly 0.025 square miles.
Why not bring back the crew who did the original 1980's show?
I have a lot of fond memories of the original series, and I own the DVDs. But it's far from flawless.
The stories and dialogue are kept simple because it was marketed towards children.
It's incredibly obvious when Hasbro had just released a new set of toys in the series, because they'll appear in an episode where another character rattles off their names.
Some of the voice actors, like Michael Bell and Peter Cullen are awesome. Others are less convincing. Personally I always hated the portrayal of Starscream as a whiny, incompetent megalomaniac. He has the most awesome name of any of the Decepticons, and I think it would be cool if were an actual badass like Soundwave and Shockwave. If they snag Michael Bell, they could have him do Starscream in a vein similar to Raziel in the first Soul Reaver.
Anyway, back to the voice actors. I wouldn't mind some big names. Leonard Nimoy was excellent as Galvatron in the 80s movie, for example.
When I started watching the DVDs, the cartoon's origins as a 25-minute toy commercial really became obvious. I think there's a lot of room for improvement, although I am not holding out for this project actually being as good as it might theoretically be.
However, soon enough, as with other inventions, it just may be that we get a glass panel in front of us, and the display/input conforms to the user and his/her function, instead of the other way around.
I think using a touchscreen as a primary interface for extended periods of time would be really uncomfortable.
Most of the ways we've come up with to physically interact with electronic and mechanical systems have some element of movement, and I think there's a reason for that. I'm imagining my fingertips getting numb typing away on a glass screen for 8-14 hours a day.
Now, if the screen were made out of something rubbery, that might work. I'd want a David Cronenberg desktop wallpaper to go with that though.
Mod parent up. Those images are obviously rendered. This is a cool idea (I thought of something similar years ago), but it's going to be awhile before it will really happen.
There are literally millions of more worthy things to know than how to exploit bind to gain root access on a SunOS box.
There are literally millions of more worth things to know than how to turn a webcam into an infrared imager, how to combine filtered imagery from the Mars rovers into false-colour photos that approximate human or animal vision, or how the chemical structure of stimulants relates to natural neurotransmitters.
Those are the kind of things I find interesting, though. Just like some people are fascinated with hacking BIND (I preferred PS2 games because MIPS assembly is easier and the payoff is more amusing to me, when I had more free time).
Maybe I forgot to clear them with whoever I'm accountable to for what I do with my life.
Do you have anything to support that TV in Switerland is racier than TV here?
I don't know about the Swiss in particular, but in most of Europe there is at least toplessness on broadcast (not cable) television.
Or TV in Japan?
Japan is even more repressive of sex than the US, and look where it's gotten them in terms of their attitudes towards things like rape and schoolgirl BDSM tentacle fetishes.
Teenagers are simply not emotionally ready for sex, demonstrated by the plain fact that despite state mandated, rigorous sex ed with lots of information and explicit directions, teenagers continue to get themselves pregnant.
Teenagers are simply not emotionally ready for interacting with the real world, demonstrated by the plain fact that despite state mandated, rigorous education with lots of information and explicit directions, teenagers continue to get themselves killed or seriously injured.
Humans are evolved to start mating well before they turn 20. Please stop assuming that the results of America's ridiculously puritanical and backwards society are any indication of "plain facts."
Is a 'Great Canadien Superstore' kind of like Costco, only their shelves are lined with female Canadians of every type imaginable? Or would those be "Canadiennes"?
Is it any different than people who get into heated discussions about cars, football or anything else?
Generally, yes, because you can never really "prove" anything WRT a fictional world. I've seen it most frequently involving Star Trek, which is especially bad since it has poor continuity and the directors are willing to change things around all the time.
I am curious on why you'd even bother though. Are you just trying to game the mods and see if they're paying attention? It seems like an odd hobby.
Given the high UID, it's probably someone from one of the various 13-year-old-l33+-hax0r groups that collect karma-possessing accounts on Slashdot to modbomb with.
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It had a great networked tank game where you drove around a city blowing it up and hunting for your buddy's enemy tank
Firepower. I especially liked the "explosion" and "cannon shot" sounds that had obviously been created by someone's mouth next to a microphone.
When I saved up and bought a 2400 baud modem, I was able to give my 1200 baud model to a friend of mine, and then we were finally able to play it together without one of us carrying his entire A500 over to the other's house.
Not in my extensive experience.
'schizophrenia' just means "someone i don't like to talk to".
That's a very clever-sounding assumption. How sad that it's totally inaccurate.
I dated a girl with schizophrenia in high school. We talked all the time, and she was very intelligent about things like math. But because her condition worsened over time after she stopped getting treatment, she lost the ability to interact with the real world in any sort of meaningful way. Now, over a decade later, the person that she could have been is irrevocably lost.
Psychosis is not a disorder in the sense of a separate Axis I category. Rather, it is a loss of contact with reality that can be part of many disorders, including severe depression.
Okay, fair enough. I misread your statement "extraordinarily serious depression (psychosis, history of suicide attempts, etc.)" as implying that one of the possible symptoms of psychosis is depression, instead of vice-versa.
despite copious amounts of pizza and TV.
Obviously his brain had built up a tolerance to pizza and TV (due to the same effect we're discussing). You should have tried an alternate stimulus, like dancing girls or beer.
1. Define 'insanity'.
2. Sell drugs to make people conform to #1's definition.
3. [there is no "3. ???"]
4. Profit!!!!
Have you ever had a friend with a genuine psychological disorder, like schizophrenia? They are not "just different." They need treatment, particularly in the form of medication.
Just because US pharmaceutical companies like to sell fashionable products to gullible people does not mean that all psychiatric drugs are a scam.
Most likely the device will only be used on people with extraordinarily serious depression (psychosis, history of suicide attempts, etc.)
Nitpick:
Psychosis is a thought disorder. Depression is a mood disorder. Most people with psychosis (as opposed to psychopaths) are not violent toward themselves or others, just confused.
If I am constantly given negative stimuli, would the baseline not drop, making me feel happier in general, even though absolute quality of life remains unchanged?
Yes. In my experience, people still need some sort of external stimulus to turn their mood around, but the requirements for it become less and less stringent the longer they've been down.
Now, I don't fucking want help. I rather like being this far below the average person. It's easier down here. No one understands that, and I'm expected to "get better" so that my friends and family will "feel better" about me.
If it's so great, then why are the people around you able to tell that something is wrong?
- Going to the local Apple dealer with my mom and dad to pick up an original IIe with a green monochrome display.
- Convincing my dad to let me have the "Fly the unfriendly skies" Skyfox t-shirt.
- Buying the Neuromancer videogame with birthday money, and through it finding out about the novel by Gibson.
- Wasteland.
- Hacking the Bard's Tale III characters with a hex editor.
- Getting an Amiga 500 and a genlock, and using it to add primitive effects to home movies.
- Connecting to local GremCit boards with a 300 baud modem from my Amiga.
- Getting a hacked account on a local ISP from a friend, and liking it so much that I paid for a legitimate one.
- IRC and Usenet before the advent of the web.
- Watching as the world realized the potential of the global network.
- Meeting young people today who have grown up in a world where they're always connected to their friends and a vast resource of information.
The entire point of DST is just retarded. Don't change it. GET RID OF IT. It's 2005. We have these nifty fucking things called ELECTRIC LIGHTS now. You can use them to, like, see when it's dark. It's really fucking amazing.
No kidding. Maybe I've been having an overly stressful week, but the article summary made me want to go out and kill as many people as possible and impale them on pikes.
We'll see who's springing forward then, won't we? WON'T WE?!?!?!!!!
Write a script that gets triggered by file access events for the wave file Outlook is looking at. Every time that event happens, have it wait fifteen seconds, then overwrite the file with a randomly-selected one from a directory tree that contains wav files.
Bonus points for having it read the config information out of the registry and/or an ini file.
In our "faith based" medical system we are given magic pills for our mysterious diseases without knowing how they work or why we have the disease in the first place.
Yeah, too bad pharmacies don't give their customers detailed documents on the nature of the prescription medications they dispense. You know, something that gives the chemical name, what it does, how it treats a specific condition, that kind of thing.
It would be even better if non-generic drugs came with pamphlets that gave the molecular structure and results of the medical studies regarding the drug. Because, you know, that sure doesn't happen right now.
The doctors think we are too stupid to understand
For the most part, they're right. People's eyes glaze over when I try and explain something simple like nicotine and acetylcholine gateways in the brain. I can't even imagine what it would be like for a doctor to try and get across to the average moron how an SSRI works.
or be actively involved to choosing options in diagnosing and treating our problems.
Whenever I've *had* a genuine option (SNRI vs. stimulant, etc), my doctors have always been happy to let me decide, because they know I'm reasonably intelligent.
When most people talk about "choosing options in diagnosing and treating our problems" they mean "I want to take this magic homeopathic water instead of cancer medication, and I want you to agree that it's just as valid a treatment." Obviously no ethical doctor will go along with that.
...and more fun. Someone needs to come up with a completely fog-proof, wide field-of-vision mask though.
...except that a single silicon atom is .25 nanometers in diameter. So even assuming a stack of pure silicon, a 1 inch cube is limited to 101,600,000 layers, or roughly 0.025 square miles.
The Rock is a film that Michael Bay directed, not a reference to the wrestler.
Why not bring back the crew who did the original 1980's show?
I have a lot of fond memories of the original series, and I own the DVDs. But it's far from flawless.
The stories and dialogue are kept simple because it was marketed towards children.
It's incredibly obvious when Hasbro had just released a new set of toys in the series, because they'll appear in an episode where another character rattles off their names.
Some of the voice actors, like Michael Bell and Peter Cullen are awesome. Others are less convincing. Personally I always hated the portrayal of Starscream as a whiny, incompetent megalomaniac. He has the most awesome name of any of the Decepticons, and I think it would be cool if were an actual badass like Soundwave and Shockwave. If they snag Michael Bell, they could have him do Starscream in a vein similar to Raziel in the first Soul Reaver.
Anyway, back to the voice actors. I wouldn't mind some big names. Leonard Nimoy was excellent as Galvatron in the 80s movie, for example.
When I started watching the DVDs, the cartoon's origins as a 25-minute toy commercial really became obvious. I think there's a lot of room for improvement, although I am not holding out for this project actually being as good as it might theoretically be.
However, soon enough, as with other inventions, it just may be that we get a glass panel in front of us, and the display/input conforms to the user and his/her function, instead of the other way around.
I think using a touchscreen as a primary interface for extended periods of time would be really uncomfortable.
Most of the ways we've come up with to physically interact with electronic and mechanical systems have some element of movement, and I think there's a reason for that. I'm imagining my fingertips getting numb typing away on a glass screen for 8-14 hours a day.
Now, if the screen were made out of something rubbery, that might work. I'd want a David Cronenberg desktop wallpaper to go with that though.
It's a "rendered model".
Mod parent up. Those images are obviously rendered. This is a cool idea (I thought of something similar years ago), but it's going to be awhile before it will really happen.
There are literally millions of more worthy things to know than how to exploit bind to gain root access on a SunOS box.
There are literally millions of more worth things to know than how to turn a webcam into an infrared imager, how to combine filtered imagery from the Mars rovers into false-colour photos that approximate human or animal vision, or how the chemical structure of stimulants relates to natural neurotransmitters.
Those are the kind of things I find interesting, though. Just like some people are fascinated with hacking BIND (I preferred PS2 games because MIPS assembly is easier and the payoff is more amusing to me, when I had more free time).
Maybe I forgot to clear them with whoever I'm accountable to for what I do with my life.
Do you have anything to support that TV in Switerland is racier than TV here?
I don't know about the Swiss in particular, but in most of Europe there is at least toplessness on broadcast (not cable) television.
Or TV in Japan?
Japan is even more repressive of sex than the US, and look where it's gotten them in terms of their attitudes towards things like rape and schoolgirl BDSM tentacle fetishes.
Teenagers are simply not emotionally ready for sex, demonstrated by the plain fact that despite state mandated, rigorous sex ed with lots of information and explicit directions, teenagers continue to get themselves pregnant.
Teenagers are simply not emotionally ready for interacting with the real world, demonstrated by the plain fact that despite state mandated, rigorous education with lots of information and explicit directions, teenagers continue to get themselves killed or seriously injured.
Humans are evolved to start mating well before they turn 20. Please stop assuming that the results of America's ridiculously puritanical and backwards society are any indication of "plain facts."
Is a 'Great Canadien Superstore' kind of like Costco, only their shelves are lined with female Canadians of every type imaginable? Or would those be "Canadiennes"?
Is it any different than people who get into heated discussions about cars, football or anything else?
Generally, yes, because you can never really "prove" anything WRT a fictional world. I've seen it most frequently involving Star Trek, which is especially bad since it has poor continuity and the directors are willing to change things around all the time.
I am curious on why you'd even bother though. Are you just trying to game the mods and see if they're paying attention? It seems like an odd hobby.
Given the high UID, it's probably someone from one of the various 13-year-old-l33+-hax0r groups that collect karma-possessing accounts on Slashdot to modbomb with.